Sredoje Lukić

Sredoje Lukić (born April 5 1961) is a former policeman and participant in the Bosnian War in the Višegrad area.

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

Biography

He was born on April 5, 1961, in the village of Rujišta near Višegrad, to father Đorđe Lukić. He is related to police general Sreten Lukić and Milan Lukić.

He worked as a policeman in Belgrade and joined the Bosnian War as a traffic officer in Višegrad. In April 1992, he joined a paramilitary group, which the ICTY believes, but emphasizes that there is no evidence, was under the command of the Serb Democratic Party. Members of this formation were arrested by the Territorial Defense between April 7 and April 9, 1992. During his time in Bosniak captivity, Lukić was tortured and humiliated, and cigarette butts were extinguished on his body.[1] He was released on April 14 or April 15, 1992.

Sredoje Lukić voluntarily surrendered to the Ministry of Interior in Banja Luka on September 14, 2005.[2]

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia tried him together with Milan Lukić. In the first-instance judgement from July 30, 2009, he was sentenced to 30 years in prison for acts of cruel treatment, murder, violations of the laws and customs of war, persecution, crimes against humanity, and other inhumane acts.[3] On December 4, 2012, the Appeals Chamber reduced Sredoje Lukić’s sentence to 27 years in prison.

He is serving his prison sentence in a prison in Norway, where he was transferred on August 21, 2013.[4]

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